rather
IPA: rˈæðɝ
noun
- A surname.
verb
- (nonstandard or dialectal) To prefer; to prefer to.
adjective
- (obsolete) Prior; earlier; former.
adverb
- Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably, in preference to. (Now usually followed by than)
- (conjunctive) Used to introduce a contradiction; on the contrary.
- (conjunctive) Introducing a qualification or clarification; more precisely. (Now usually preceded by or.)
- (degree) Somewhat, fairly.
- (obsolete) More quickly.
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Examples of "rather" in Sentences
- Some of them are rather abstruse.
- Some of the quotes in that section seem rather phony.
- Some of the rationales were on rather flimsy grounds.
- Some edits may be incompetence rather than mendacity.
- Some of the goodies benefit regions rather than industries.
- They are known to have a hankering for some rather odd foods.
- Also to your point, some of the language sounds rather stodgy.
- All this seems rather unexceptionable to me, with some qualifications.
- But the price is quite high at the moment and the market rather volatile.
- The bulldog section is quite inadequate and rather botched at the moment.
- TRUNDLEBEN: I think it was rather -- perhaps _rather_ tragic, Sir Webley.
- In many administrations, customer service is just a label rather than a behavior.
- The earth's shadow on the moon is poetic, a sigh between sentences, using a definition rather than the word.
- Flashman's Khokandian friends seem to have used the term rather loosely, possibly because many of them were part Mongol by descent.
- SMAs can be good for investors because the assets are held in their name rather than comingled with other investors' money in a fund.
- There are days when I just cannot have straight coffee, but rather make a *rather* chocolaty mocha. made with dark chocolate chips AH!
- (or rather I) who have done wrong or right, and the consequence is, that the American is _rather_ irritable on the subject, as every attack is taken as personal.
- In the analysis of "_I had rather go_," _had_ is the predicate verb, the infinitive _go_ is the object complement, and the adjective _rather_ completes _had_ and belongs to _go_, i.e., is objective complement.
- I have seen him in the streets when he would go anywhere, or turn down any passage, rather than meet me; and when compelled to meet me he would look up at the sky or survey the chimney tops _rather_ than see me. '
- It was getting very near the holidays, already the middle of July, and though we had several times asked mamma where we were going, she had never been able to tell us, and at last she got tired of our asking, and said in her rather vexed voice -- she has a vexed voice, and a _very_ vexed voice as well, but when it isn't as bad as either of these we call it her "_rather_ vexed" voice.
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